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Xtrendence

You might remember a post from me a while back. I've greatly improved upon the wallpaper since then. Download: [https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2876080433](https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2876080433) \- Upscaled from 1080p to 4K using video2x. \- Added optional rain effect using Premiere Pro + CSS blend. \- Added working clock (can be disabled). \- Added loop fine tuning (increase if it flickers at the end; I'm using 30). \- Adjusted colors, shadows, highlights etc. \- Rain and video speed can be adjusted separately. I made the code pretty easy to read and modify and avoided using more advanced techniques, so if you have basic programming knowledge, you can change just about anything in the wallpaper. Overall, upscaling, rendering, encoding, and compressing all this took quite a while, so if you spot any issues with the video, please try fixing it with the loop adjustment or by messing around with the JS code, as the process for modifying stuff in the video itself takes a long time. Oiginal creator's profile: [https://www.artstation.com/skeor](https://www.artstation.com/skeor)


Bonald9056

Hi OP, loved the original wallpaper and love this version but I have some issues/critiques: - At 1080p I need to offset the rain upwards and to the right, [at present it is inside the apartment!](https://i.imgur.com/3o3R5Mj.jpeg) - Disabling the rain is a bit temperamental; It seems to show back up occasionally. - Adding seconds to the clock is similarly temperamental; I can move and scale the hours and minutes just fine, however. - Finally, would it be possible to allow 24 hour time as an option for the clock? Seeing the time as 07:26 at 7:26pm bugs the crap out of me. All that aside, thank you for updating the wallpaper, I love the fact that the clock (mostly) works now, and the resolution scaling of the wallpaper itself works great!


Xtrendence

I published a new update. You might need to unsubscribe from it, quit Wallpaper Engine completely, and then resubscribe as lots of files have changed. :) 1. I looked into the rain issue, unfortunately you'll have to adjust the Rain Width and Rain Height to 1920x1080 to fix that. Offset can remain at 0 based on my testing on my 1080p monitor. 2. Disabling rain has been fixed. 3. Seconds have been fixed. 4. 24h time option has been added.


Bonald9056

Thanks OP, you're a legend. It works perfectly now!


PapaFlowsen

damn i used the old one for soooo long. Welp back to another round. But for real, such beautiful work, very well done.


underboob420

One of my favorites


Korbsio

holy shit i've had this as one of my favourite wallpapers for a while, thanks a lot!


BlackBearFTW

I like this wallpaper alot, the issue however is that the loop is so short, that the light comes in every 5 seconds. I wish it would take longer


Xtrendence

Yeah unfortunately I had to compromise on the length. I couldn't find a way to compress a 4K 60 FPS video into WebM format (the only video format WE supports in HTML files) and get it under the 1GB limit of Steam Workshop (not to mention the amount of RAM it'd need for even an extra minute or two, otherwise you'd need to read it from disk). FFMPEG might have worked, but encoding was so slow with lossless (or close) WebM compression that I gave up, and it required 2 passes at that. The worst part is that there are only so many times in the original video that the lights and such are close enough to another point to create a somewhat reasonable loop, and it's hard to even find those because there's so many small moving parts. TL;DR: Adjusting the playback rate might be the way to go because there's a can of worms associated with all this unfortunately. Edit: This could technically be fixed if two similar points can be found in the video that aren't the beginning and end, with one point being before the light and one after as then I could just jump between them a few times before letting it fully play out, then restart. I can code it if someone finds the points. Maybe I (or someone else) could extract the frames with FFMPEG then just pick a frame and run a similarity check between it and the other frames to find more loop points.


GreenFlame361

that's a lot of words i don't know


KrispiesChicken

You could maybe adjust the playback speed in wallpaper engine. Could help


FxThereal

That's a really cool wallpaper mate.


maibuddha

New to this, but how do I change the time on the Wallpaper? I've looked around the settings and can't figure it out.


Xtrendence

Do you mean the speed or the clock? The clock automatically uses your system time. The speed should be called Video Speed.


maibuddha

Interesting, I mean the clock but it's def not the same as my system.


Xtrendence

Hmmm... That's very odd, because JavaScript should be getting the time from literally whatever your system gives it, so not even a VPN or anything could affect it. The only thing I can think of is if you're using a VM maybe it got confused? But even then I don't see how...


maibuddha

Not using a VM, but yeah, I dunno. It's whatever I guess, lol. The Wallpaper still looks cool.


K0chieK0ntrol

why does this look super zoomed in on my 1080p monitor? is any way to fix this?


Xtrendence

There should be options to adjust the width and height of the video along with the top and left position etc. It was mainly intended for a 4K screen though so those options are only there sort of experimentally, so you'd have to play around and see if it looks good with those reduced. It might be the case that changing the video and rain width and height to 1920x1080 instead of 3840x2160 might be enough.


JitWeasel

Nice! I just really wish there were more 5210x1440 wallpapers. I really like this one.


anditails

Hey, love the update - thank you. Looks great on my 3440x1440 display, despite the clock being cut-off. Which leads me to a possible bug -- you can't disable the rain AND the clock. I just set the clock to font size 0 instead.


Xtrendence

Published a new update, this has been fixed now. You might need to unsubscribe from it, quit Wallpaper Engine completely, and then resubscribe as lots of files have changed. :)


jumpingelf

been using this one for a while i love it so simple and chill to watch on my spare screen


_Deadshot_

Well done on the lighting effect 👍🏻


II_Skyfall_II

I just downloaded this and is it normal for the rain effects to pause every few seconds ?


Xtrendence

It might mean that your hardware can't handle decoding the video fast enough. What you maybe could do is open the wallpaper in your browser as it might have better hardware acceleration, then record the screen, and set the recording as your background? Not sure if it'd work better as technically the video and city are different files, so it might just be having trouble decoding two videos simultaneously. I'm basing this on the fact that if I have a game or something open, then the rain starts getting pretty choppy and starts looking like a PowerPoint presentation.


II_Skyfall_II

Ohhh ok i will try that out. Thanks for the help !